advocate

t. & i. [Lat. advoco = to call or summon to. In Law: To call an advocate to one's a istance: ad =to; voco = to call. This is an old English word which fell into disuse and again revived. "It would be difficult," says Trench, "to find an example of the verb 'to advocate' between Milton and Burke" ( Trench: Eng., Past & Present, p. 55.). L Transitive: *1. To call upon or to, to summon, to ask to hear. we may, in those cases, expre our oath in the form of advocating and calling the creature."Jeremy Taylor Of the Decalogue . 2. To speak or write, if not even to agitate in favour of a person, an opinion, or a mea sure. 44 "The most eminent orators were engaged to advocate her cause."-Hitford. persons who advocate this sentiment." Mackenzie : L Life of Calvin . II. Intransitive : * O. Scotch : To strive, as an advocate does, to win a cause. "For men seldom advocate against Satan's work and sin in themselves, but against God's work in themselves."-Rutherford: Letters.